Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?